#2424 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Orange Swift
🇳🇱 Oranje wortelboorder ·Triodia sylvina
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
The orange swift ( Triodia sylvina ), also known as "orange moth" (but see Angerona prunaria ), is a species of moth belonging to the family Hepialidae. It was previously placed in the genus Hepialus . It is distributed throughout Europe.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 597 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #40 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
- 25,735 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Orange Swift
- Nederlands
- Oranje wortelboorder
- scientific name
- Triodia sylvina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Hepialidae
- sightings in NL
- 597
- sightings in Europe
- 24,433
- sightings worldwide
- 25,735
- GBIF records in NL
- 34,900
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
relatives· Hepialidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 461806, Wikidata Q474591, GBIF 6097236, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.